Thursday 5th November 2026

Goldeneye - 6 in Poole Harbour
Eider - 2 between Poole Quay and Brownsea
Red-crested Pochard - 1 drake still at Longham Lakes (North Lake)
Russian White-fronted Goose - 20 over Abbotsbury Swannery heading east, 1 juvenile with Greylag Geese at Longham Lakes
Purple Sandpiper - 1 Lyme Regis Cobb
Sanderling - 10 Shell Bay
Greenshank - 2 Brand's Bay, 1 Little Sea (Studland)
Balearic Shearwater - 1 west past Portland Bill this morning
Spoonbill - 9 Poole Harbour ( 7 off Green Island, 2 Wareham Channel)
Great Northern Diver - 1 past Shell Bay into harbour
Red-throated Diver - 1 off Mudeford Quay, 1 Poole Harbour off Ham Common
Cattle Egret - 34+ left roost at Christchurch Harbour, 10+ west of Worget, 7 near Hampreston village
Great White Egret - 2 Longham Lakes, 1 Brand's Bay
Merlin - 1 Sydling St Nicholas
Redwing - 12 Hampreston Fields, 7 Hardy Monument 
Firecrest -  2 Hengistbury, 1 Portland Bill
Black Redstart - 1 Longham Lakes, 1 still at Chiswell, Portland (in Little Ship garden)


Purple Sandpiper, Lyme Regis Cobb © Rebecca Porter